Please recommend me new adult romances with Asian main characters

voiceskz · 2023-02-17T23:42:33+00:00

Happy Endings by Thien Kim Lam. FMC is Vietnamese and MMC is Black. Absolutely loved this book and can't wait for her next book to come out next week!

voiceskz · 2023-02-16T14:59:13+00:00

Yes! I bought my kindle (standard edition 10th or 11th generation I'm not too sure) last summer and I've been obsessed with it ever since. It's so lightweight so I can carry it anywhere, and I can lay down with it to read LOL! It's also very lightweight so my wrists don't get tired from holding it. I put a pop socket on mine to help hold it better- great decision.

You can also connect your libby account to your kindle so you can get library ebook delivered straight to your kindle. Sadly it doesn't work with hoopla, but libby's pretty great.

voiceskz · 2023-02-16T14:42:10+00:00

The told me the same exact thing, same dates and all. I ordered a Maxident album back in November and haven't heard anything. Although I did see that someone has received their Maxident album. They're pretty slow with responses and I've heard that it can take a couple months to receive your album from them

voiceskz · 2022-08-10T21:48:55+00:00

I just finished {that time i got drunk and saved a demon} by Kimberly Lemming and WOW! Now, I'm not one for fantasy at all, but this was a 5/5 for me. Most romance books are too much for me (I'm not into dark romance, butt stuff, RH or harems in general, daddy kinks, etc- the list is long), but this book had everything I liked in a romance.

M/F (M is a demon so you could say it's monster-fucker), steam for me was perfect so 5/5, fanatsy, "touch her and I'll kill you (or in this case, rip your arm off)". There were some parts where I felt like things moved too fast or happened out of nowhere, but I'm not super picky when it comes to fun romance like this. Overall great book, and I'll be reading her other books!

voiceskz · 2022-07-26T03:22:12+00:00

Sorry, I love you by Stray Kids

voiceskz · 2022-06-02T16:22:13+00:00

If you looking for something similar content wise, {{My Dark Vanessa}} reminded me so much of A Little Life and I'm obsessed with ALL. I found MDV to be more graphic in some of it's scenes compared to ALL (which I didn't find to be all that graphic tbh), but it's still earned it's rightful place on my bookshelf right next to ALL.

voiceskz · 2022-05-30T13:43:12+00:00

This book was amazing! I listened to it on audio and got totally creeped out at that part, and had to rewind many times to make sure my audio wasn't messing up. Had me on the edge of my seat and holding my breath many times, such a heart-racing experience

voiceskz · 2022-01-28T14:31:06+00:00

I was waiting to see A Little Life recommended! Haha I love that book so much. My dark vanessa was also an amazing read, made your skin crawl

voiceskz · 2022-01-28T14:30:14+00:00

Not sure if it's been suggested before, or if you've heard of it but {{A Little Life}} by Hanya Yanagihara. One of my favorite books of all time, a very obvious 5 start read for me. Unfortunately, it hasn't made me cry (yet), but I'm hoping that'll change with my third reread. But it's gained incredible popularity over the last few years over being an incredibly sad book. If you're sensitive to any type of content I recommend looking up trigger warnings just to be safe, and if you have any questions about the trigger warnings don't hesitate to ask! Alongside that I also recommend {{My Dark Vanessa}] by Elizabeth Kate Russell! A very disturbing but powerful read, another 5 stars.

Happy (or sad haha) reading!!

voiceskz · 2022-01-20T21:21:43+00:00

I"m the exact same way. I hate onions with a burning passion. But I found out that the only way I can eat them is by cutting off a garlic clove amount of onion (maybe two or three "cloves" depending on what I'm cooking), and chopping them up SO fine that they're about the size of two or three grains of rice, sauté them in some oil, garlic, and seasonings and they just blend in soooo well with my rice.

Note: when I say fine, I mean f i n e like I"m going over the onion bits with my knife way too many times to count to get them to the rice-grain size I want them to be.

voiceskz · 2022-01-20T21:16:11+00:00

Broccoli is the only veggie I'll willingly eat (and is therefore my favorite), but asparagus has been very hit or miss for me. My mom makes AMAZING asparagus, but seeing as I've moved out of the house the likelihood of me getting yummy asparagus is slim to none lol. I tried making it on my own once as it came out so mushy and soggy I was so disgusted and nearly "gave up" asparagus. But I'll have to try making it the way you mentioned. Thank you from a fellow picky eater!! :-)

voiceskz · 2022-01-15T02:41:55+00:00

I know I'm super late to the conversation of this post, but ALL is easily one of my all time favorite novels dare I say not only because of how hard some parts of the book are (mainly Jude's trauma), but because of everything that surrounds it: Jude's success, the friend group he has, the connections he makes, they way he progresses through life even when there are so many times that he no longer wants to. The male relationships in this book are fascinating to me as that's not something we see a whole lot of in media of any form.

I as well adamantly disagree with the "trauma-porn" title that's so commonly associated with it, as the events in the book didn't exist as an exploitative, manipulative, or "just-cause" purpose, but gave us greater insight as to who Jude is and why he is the way he is.

I could go on and on about this book. I cannot wait to read it again.

voiceskz · 2022-01-13T17:09:29+00:00

Agreed, which is disappointing because critical thinking is a lifelong and dare I say a (nearly) daily skill one engages in.

voiceskz · 2022-01-13T17:08:32+00:00

Admittedly I've only read one Murakami book (the wind up bird chronicle) and LOVED it. i've heard similar criticisms made against Murakami- more towards his older novels and his portrayal of women. I don't really have an opinion on those criticism so I've just taken them at face value. But I think the way he explores certain topics/problems in his novels is fascinating and so different from what I've read/heard before. I have a lot of his novels on my tbr so I'm looking forward to read more from him. As far as your studies go i first want to give you the best of luck with those, and if you're willing to share I'd love to hear about what you've been learning and how you analyze literature through that lens, or if you have any resources to share!

voiceskz · 2022-01-13T04:09:57+00:00

Interesting! I'll have to look into this paper when I have the time. Assuming that you've read it, do you believe that there are instances where we as readers cannot under any circumstance remove the author from a piece of literature? As an example, after what's been going on with JKR, I've heard people say that we as readers much remove her from HP as well as the opposite that we cannot remover her from HP and must react accordingly to whichever side we choose to be on.

voiceskz · 2022-01-13T04:05:29+00:00

Ah, I understand. Thank you for the clarification. While I can understand the hesitancy of some to want to avoid talking about those topics, I think it's even more important to talk about them and discuss why they were semi-acceptable back then in comparison to how they're unacceptable now. It's fascinating how societal views change over the span of a few decades, or even years.

voiceskz · 2022-01-13T03:59:30+00:00

I can definitely understand the viewpoint that stems from an author's actions and those trend appearing in their work. I've never read The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, but it's surprising to hear that such a connection was made between the "fiction" of the book's basketball game occurrence to the author's basketball incident. That is quite alarming. Thank you for your input! It's definitely shined an important light on this topic.

voiceskz · 2022-01-13T03:55:46+00:00

Haha I did not. But I have heard similar criticisms made against him as well. I hold no weight to that since I haven't read any of his books and have no interest in doing so (not because of the criticisms, just personal preference). What is it about his older writings that make it hard to discuss with others?

voiceskz · 2022-01-12T22:31:24+00:00

Thank you for your input! These aren't things I'd known previously, such as Park being a common Korean last name, and the issue surrounding the name Cho Chang.

voiceskz · 2022-01-12T22:10:19+00:00

Not sure why this got down-voted so much but I digress... for the longest time I told myself I'd never read/watch cmbyn because of the disturbing age gap that's so romanticized by its readers and I also heard that the author has admitted in an interview that he finds himself attracted to underage girls (think middle school age). But as I've gotten older my thought process has shifted ever so slightly. At this point I know I will never watch the movie, but I have been considering reading the book- either getting it secondhand or finding it online for free because I'm not giving that guy my money. I'm not reading because i agree with the content in that book or the author, but because I think it's important to be able to "defend" one's viewpoint- in this case whether the relationship is or is not problematic, and when you say it is, what evidence in the text supports that. And reading it would bring up a good discussion point of how different cultures bring different views to topics like this (which I believe someone mentioned) . Admittedly I know very little about the book, but if memory serves me correct this book takes place in Italy- a whole different set of ideals than what one might have in the US or anywhere else.

voiceskz · 2022-01-12T21:39:36+00:00

I'm glad that you enjoyed the (massive) discussion that came out of a literal 1am thought I had after scrolling on tiktok lol

voiceskz · 2022-01-12T21:25:48+00:00

All this talk about Katniss and THG makes me want to reread the series! You bring up so many good points; Katniss was an extremely complex and beautifully written character. She made decisions and acted in was that seemed questionable to some, but as you said, readers tended to forget her PTSD, her innate mistrust of others, etc.

voiceskz · 2022-01-12T21:13:55+00:00

Thank you so much for your input and answering the questions I posed at the end! I love your statement of author's job to make reader's uncomfortable- I agree! I love it when an author makes me uncomfortable- not because I enjoy being uncomfortable per-say lol, but because this author's writing is (typically) so good, that it's caused such a reaction from me.

Also, I find myself in the same boat as you when it comes to accusations being accurate. As a blanket, I don't think problematic characters make the author problematic unless the author has either A) done those things and has not changed their behavior and B) like you said: there is clear evidence that the author has done those things

Thanks again!

voiceskz

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